explorer.exe crashing when opening up a a folder with .avi in

[Chrissirhc]

Hi,

I had some .avi files in some folders. Whenever I opened up that folder in explorer explorer crashes (Nb I have detail view as opposed to thumbnail...). I deleted the avi file and no longer have explorer crashing. Any ideas what the problem is?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Rick998]

Download and apply the 'Windows XP AVI Fix 1.01 build 0101' fix, available from:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Windows-XP-AVI-Fix.shtml

The fix deletes the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler\Default

This prevents Explorer from scanning the complete contents of AVI files to try to determine the date, time, size, bitrate, etc.

Hope this helps...

 

[linney]

822430 - Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

There is a bug in XP in handling AVI files, where the file is corrupt or broken, causing explorer to read the whole file looking for index or property details.

It has been suggested to correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file property queries on these files.



Also try these.

A suggested workaround: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to
the key below and delete the default data (right pane).

For AVI's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\
shellex\PropertyHandler

For MP3's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.mp3\shellex\PropertyHandler

Note: Make a backup of each key before editing.


Have a look around these links.

http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

Select a file - windows stops.
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[bcastner]

A suggestion:

Check to be certain that it is truely a SHMEDIA issue at the heart of the problem. If so, all of the fixes above remove SHMEDIA.DLL from the handler list for .AVI files and will work.

To test that it is in fact SHMEDIA.DLL at the root of the problem:

Start, Run, regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

If this works, you can leave it in place as a fix, or do the registry edits through a downloaded "Fix" file or by hand as linney discussed.

To revert your changes to shmedia.dll registration:

Start, Run, regsvr32 shmedia.dll


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